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Friday December 18, 2020 · 11:30 PM PST

2020/12/18 · 23:30

Hi, long time, no see. Like a great many of you, this past year has been… let’s just say, full of surprises. That said, I did not have have "singing a Trump parody to the tune of Nickelback’s “Rockstar” on my 2020 Bingo Card, but here we are. All voices, me…

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Thank you, Vincent...

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Tuesday September 24, 2019 · 1:28 AM PDT

2019/09/24 · 01:28

I just had a most profoundly moving experience... leaving my gig Sunday evening, walking to my car, I passed a young man who kinda mumbled something. Thinking he was asking for money, I said "sorry, man... I can't help you". He shook his head and said "no, I need your help" and I asked him what he needed. He said "can you please call me an ambulance?" I stopped in my tracks, grabbed my phone and said "sure, what's wrong?" Very calmly, he said "I'm having suicidal ideations."

I asked him his name, gave him a hug… there was a bus stop bench a few feet away, I had him sit down, called 911, told the dispatcher what was happening and they said they'd send someone... within 5 minutes two police cruisers and a fire truck showed up, followed closely by an ambulance... they talked to him, asked him what was going on and what meds he'd been on. He told them he cuts himself and the voices were telling him to do it again...

Thank God he had the wherewithall to ask for help and thank God I listened to him... thank you, Vincent for trusting me and thank you Hermosa Beach PD and FD for your professionalism and kindness... #suicideawareness #suicideprevention #askforhelp #listen

The Who Said It Best...

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Thursday December 11, 2014 · 9:50 PM PST

2014/12/11 · 21:50

All I really have to say...

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Monday June 23, 2014 · 10:50 AM PDT

2014/06/23 · 10:50

Adopt the Arts is a 501(c)(3) Non-profit funding arts programs in public elementary schools. Co-founded by former Guns n' Roses drummer Matt Sorum, Adopt the Arts is dedicated to raising and distributing funds for music education and musical instruments to benefit LAUSD schools, whose budgets for music/arts education have been slashed to the bone.

http://www.adoptthearts.org/

It is the mission of Adopt the Arts Foundation to bring together well-known artists, public figures, entrepreneurs, policy makers, and the general public to save the arts in America's public schools. We believe that it is morally and ethically incumbent upon us to foster the creativity, dreams, hopes, and imaginations of our children.

I’m extremely honored to be amongst the world class performers at two upcoming concerts to benefit Adopt the Arts here in Los Angeles on July 2nd and 3rd at The Mint (6010 West Pico Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90035).

Details below the fold…

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Wednesday April 30, 2014 · 10:11 AM PDT

2014/04/30 · 10:11

Hi, Sarah… you don’t know me and were it not for John McCain putting “Country First” (sic) in 2008, I probably wouldn’t know you either. But sadly I do now and I along with millions of other comparatively sane people have had to endure a seemingly-endless stream of mouth farts and half-truths from a half-wit ever since. “Country First” indeed…

At any rate I couldn’t help but notice the cavalier manner in which you disgraced your own religion last week while milking an applause line from the NRA:

Well, if I were in charge, they would know that waterboarding is how we baptize terrorists

Unbelievably, it sounds even worse in the original “shrill, batshit crazy”… see for yourself:

Once I retrieved my jaw from the floor upon hearing this, I couldn’t help but wonder what other horrific metaphors you had up your sleeve once you inevitably doubled down on that one… so with all “due respect” (i.e.. none whatsoever)… here’s my question to you, Ms. Resigner-in-Chief…

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Friday April 11, 2014 · 6:29 AM PDT

2014/04/11 · 06:29

It's 6:28 AM Pacific Daylight Time…

Just wondering if anything has happened this morning that I (and everyone else on the West Coast) have not diaried about yet that we should be ashamed of, or is it okay to go to the bathroom?

Please advise, ASAP...

Thanks,

ThatSinger

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Monday March 03, 2014 · 9:55 AM PST

2014/03/03 · 09:55

With apologies to Harold Ramis (RIP), why does this feel like Groundhog Day? Sadly, this is not a movie... this is real life... or real death, as it were.

Once again, a child is dead, a family is wondering how this could have happened to a "responsible gun owner" and no doubt the usual suspects will point to anything and everything but the (literally) smoking gun... follow me beneath the fold for yet another story you've seen all too often, albeit a particularly egregious version of it.

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Saturday July 13, 2013 · 9:20 PM PDT

2013/07/13 · 21:20

It's really all there is to say...

Because let's face it... it's ≠...

Not even close...

The truth hurts, sometimes it's excruciating... this is one of those times...

Rest in peace, Trayvon Martin... you weren't found "not guilty"... you were

innocent

... literally... 100%

Ann Coulter and the "R" Word...

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Wednesday October 24, 2012 · 12:35 AM PDT

2012/10/24 · 00:35

I'm literally writing this diary thru tears... as most of you probably know, Ann Coulter Tweeted Monday night during the Presidential debate and referred to President Obama as a "retard"...

As anyone who's ever followed my commentary in this forum can attest, I have zero tolerance for "retard as a putdown" and it's an automatic HR from me, regardless of the context... understanding that Ann Coulter would have long ago sported the Bojo here, rather than hang a donut on her, I'll hang the worst possible descriptive I can on her spindly, narcissistic ass... another "R" word... "repulsive"... as in "Ann Coulter is a repulsive woman"... because really, nothing rips her to her core more than the realization that her preening, mantis-bodied visage is repulsive on every level... no need for any sexist modifier, no need to insinuate that she's anything other than what she is... a repulsive woman...

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Saturday October 20, 2012 · 5:50 PM PDT

2012/10/20 · 17:50

I've always held David Gergen in such high esteem... well, high esteem relative to other individuals of his ilk, certainly those with such dubious ties to such dubious regimes... I was never under the illusion that he shared my progressive values or was at all anything but a Republican at heart, albeit an honest broker...

Sadly that perception has been unraveling before my very eyes... or perhaps I've just been slow to catch on?

His response (via Twitter) to the breaking news of Iran agreeing to nuclear talks was both stunning and disappointing, although I guess I should thank him for dispossessing me of the last shred of respect I had for him... his response beneath the squiggly:

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Tuesday August 28, 2012 · 10:12 AM PDT

2012/08/28 · 10:12

I’ve watched the Todd Akin (and by extension the GOP) gaffe debacle play out with equal parts bemusement and revulsion… of course it’s fun to watch the GOP and Mitt Romney stepping all over certain parts of their anatomy trying to simultaneously reject and embrace Akin’s meanderings, of course the parsing of “rape” is repulsive, of course the schadenfreude is delicious… I’m enjoying the freakshow as much as the next guy, but it occurred to me this morning that the same people who’d dare question whether or not a woman has been “legitimately” raped and have no problem taking it upon themselves to define the parameters under which a “rape” would qualify a woman to abort a resultant pregnancy, would also have no problem forcing the same burdens of proof upon those who claim incest or risk of life to the mother.

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Sunday December 25, 2011 · 7:38 PM PST

2011/12/25 · 19:38

My sweet little bird Ella died this afternoon... my wife ms_in_la and I were with her and she passed hearing us tell her how much we love her...

In the circle of life, we're supposed to outlive our pets, but it never makes it any easier... not so sure how her dying on Christmas Day fits into that equation, but I'm certain it does, somehow...it must... our hearts are just as broken today as they would have been tomorrow or yesterday...

Anyway, hug your pooties and wozzies and fur and featherbutts...

I love you, little birdie...

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We Laugh to Keep From Crying...

Thank you, Vincent...

The Who Said It Best...

SoCal Kossacks! Adopt the Arts – 7/2/14 & 7/3/14

An Open Question for Half-Gov Palin…

I Just Woke Up...

Another "responsible" gun owner...

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Ann Coulter and the "R" Word...

WTF is WRONG with David Gergen?

What’s Next? “Legitimate” Incest? “Legitimate” Risk to Mother’s Health?

RIP, Ella...